HAM/1/18/94
Note from David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, to Mary Hamilton
Diplomatic Text
I know how happy it will make Miʃs
Hamilton to hear that Lady Stormont is
happily deliverd of a Son. Her Labour was
short and by no means severe. She was
uneasy all the Morning but was not
taken ill 'till about five o' clock and
she was brought to bed a little after
six. Tho she wished much to have a
Daughter yet she bears the Disappointment
perfectly well and was quite comforted at
the Sight of Her fine Boy.
Portland Place friday Evening. august 6. -84
recd. 9 oClock Eveg from Lord Stormont
Lord Stormont
red text is normalised and/or unformatted in other panel)
Normalised Text
I know how happy it will make Miss
Hamilton to hear that Lady Stormont is
happily delivered of a Son. Her Labour was
short and by no means severe. She was
uneasy all the Morning but was not
taken ill till about five o'clock and
she was brought to bed a little after
six. Though she wished much to have a
Daughter yet she bears the Disappointment
perfectly well and was quite comforted at
the Sight of Her fine Boy.
Portland Place friday Evening. august 6. 1784
quotations, spellings, uncorrected forms, split words, abbreviations, formatting)
Metadata
Library References
Repository: John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
Archive: Mary Hamilton Papers
Item title: Note from David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield, to Mary Hamilton
Shelfmark: HAM/1/18/94
Correspondence Details
Sender: David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield
Place sent: London
Addressee: Mary Hamilton
Place received: to be determined
Date sent: 6 August 1784
Letter Description
Summary: Note from Lord Stormont [later 2nd Earl of Mansfield] to Mary Hamilton, informing her of the birth of his son. He reports that Lady Stormont’s labour was ‘short and by no means severe’. She had wanted a daughter but her disappointment was diminished ‘at the Sight of Her fine Boy’.
Dated at Portland Place.
Length: 1 sheet, 87 words
Transliteration Information
Editorial declaration: First edited in the project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers' (Hannah Barker, Sophie Coulombeau, David Denison, Tino Oudesluijs, Cassandra Ulph, Christine Wallis & Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, 2019-2023).
All quotation marks are retained in the text and are represented by appropriate Unicode characters. Words split across two lines may have a hyphen on the first, the second or both fragments (reco-|ver, imperfect|-ly, satisfacti-|-on); or a double hyphen (pur=|port, dan|=ger, qua=|=litys); or none (respect|ing). Any point in abbreviations with superscripted letter(s) is placed last, regardless of relative left-right orientation in the original. Thus, Mrs. or Mrs may occur, but M.rs or Mr.s do not.
Acknowledgements: XML version first created without transcription as part of project 'Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers', funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council under grant AH/S007121/1. Transcription added after the funded period under the supervision of David Denison and Nuria Yáñez-Bouza.
Transliterator: Irene Boubeta-Rodríguez, undergraduate student, University of Vigo (Plain text transliteration submitted 21 April 2025)
Cataloguer: Lisa Crawley, Archivist, The John Rylands Library
Cataloguer: John Hodgson, Head of Special Collections, John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Copyright: Transcriptions, notes and TEI/XML © the editors
Revision date: 8 August 2025
